What do Bill Gates, Mohammed Ali and Osama Bin Laden have in common?

[kach22i]

Dalai Lama & Hiroshi Ishiguro Among 'World's 100 Living Geniuses'

Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm, chose World's 100 Living Geniuses by awarding scores out of 10 to each entrant against a number of factors: paradigm shifting; popular acclaim; intellectual power; achievement and cultural importance. The firm emailed 4,000 Britons this summer and asked them to nominate up to 10 living people who they considered geniuses...............

There are also some surprise entrants. Osama Bin Laden ranks at number 43, a spot he shares with Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and Mohammed Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion.

The Brits might be a little nuts, but I think it looks like a survey based on name recognition and name recognition alone.

E-mail survey....................are all this bad?

[Joeaksa]

Boy, that is a very interesting grouping.

Sure would not put a terrorist in the same group with Stephen Hawking... but then I have always been a bit different.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Ummmmmmm, yeah. Doesn't the UK have a large muslim population?

[livi]

Maybe the Brits misunderstood it as the worlds most famous/infamous living people..?

[Tobra]

was Hitler on the list?

[billwagnon]

whatever happened to reading comprehension???

100 Living Geniuses by awarding scores out of 10 to each entrant against a number of factors:

paradigm shifting;
popular acclaim;
intellectual power;
achievement and
cultural importance.

The firm emailed 4,000 Britons this summer and asked them to nominate up to 10 living people

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by billwagnon

paradigm shifting;
popular acclaim;
intellectual power;
achievement and
cultural importance.
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This is pretty much how Time Magazine selects the most influential person of the year cover.

[HardDrive]

Not to point out the obvious, but one need not be a decent person to be a genius.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by billwagnon

whatever happened to reading comprehension???

100 Living Geniuses by awarding scores out of 10 to each entrant against a number of factors:

paradigm shifting;
popular acclaim;
intellectual power;
achievement and
cultural importance.

The firm emailed 4,000 Britons this summer and asked them to nominate up to 10 living people

Sorry, I was just a bit stunned by the fact that Bill Gates and OBL are rated the same and did not look closely. Was thinking if OBL made it, perhaps Hitler. How about Akmadinerjacket or Dim Jong Ill? Perhaps a more productive response would have been a link to the list, nah, forget it, it is not important

[TerryBPP]

Muhammad Ali a genius? Really? Come on. I guess Micheal Jordan should be on there too, or Barry Bonds. All very brilliant human beings.

[island911]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

Not to point out the obvious, but one need not be a decent person to be a genius.

Perhaps. But one doesn't need to be a genius to know that only an idiot would encourage a (grand-scale) killer with the praise of a" genius" label.